Life Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

“if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.”

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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

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I myself am hell.

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I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her…

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“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, 'Gradually and then suddenly.' When someone asks how I lost my…

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I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind…

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Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul…

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What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.…

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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning.

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Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to…

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I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

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I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away.

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